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Wait. You're saying that he's being ignorant and segregationist, for not wanting to spend time with people who don't think it's okay for him to be the race he was born as? That's absurd.

It is okay to be white. It is okay to be black. It is okay to be any race, creed, color, sex, or orientation. Anyone who says otherwise is a bigot. And no, it isn't segregationist not to want to spend time with people who are bigoted toward you.

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Because a minority of black people responded negatively to a poll question about a racist, dog whistle phrase, Adams now considers black people a hate group. And he recommends white people avoid black people.

Sounds like segregation to me.

> And no, it isn't segregationist not to want to spend time with people who are bigoted toward you.

26% of black people who responded to one poll said they disagreed with "It's okay to be white" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white).

His reaction to this, was to say that all white people should avoid all black people. This one poll is not evidence that all black people are bigoted toward all white people. It's not even evidence that all 26% of the people who disagreed with a inane 4chan prank endorsed and spread by white supremacists are bigoted toward all white people.

He said that he identified as black until he read the poll, which made him turn back to identifying as white. I'm... struggling... to interpret that any way that's not ignorant at best.

You are misrepresenting what he said. He said he wants to avoid all black people not just the subset of black people that he's flimsily accusing of holding racist beliefs.

No; It's not okay. All those you listed are humans, and humans are bad. Praise Gaia.

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